Word: jay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pleasant, too, are the color, the costumes and the settings, and Fred (High Noon) Zinnemann's direction is light and sure. Hero Gordon MacRae acts with a winning warmth and naturalness, and shows a voice as clear and flexible as any in Hollywood. James Whitmore, Jay Flippen, Eddie Albert and Charlotte Greenwood are good in secondary roles, but the real stunner of the show is the heroine, a 21-year-old newcomer from Smithton, Pa. named Shirley Jones. She has a milky, springtime skin, a creamy figure, and a smile like melting butter. Her brook-clear soprano...
...gives a smooth performance, but fails to convey the full significance of the magician's own transformation. Nancy Curtis is a perfect innocent as Miranda, and carries off some of the finest lines in the play with irreproachable style. Competence prevails among the other members of the cast, and Jay Shuchter and Harry Bingham rise well above this level as Antonio and Sebastian...
...Noel Coward shows, two musical dramas starring Bing Crosby. Ed Murrow's See It Now will include TV "profiles" of New York and Paris and a camera's report on Africa. Omnibus goes musical with Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, score by Brigadoon's Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe. Also scheduled: a documentary on the Renaissance by LIFE Writer Robert Coughlan, a comedy starring British Jack-of-All-Jokes Alec Guinness, The Battle of Gettysburg by Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton. Victor Borge in two one-man shows, Jack Benny in three original comedies...
...throw his cloak over mud puddles. He accepts the job of captain of the palace guard, i.e., the Queens pet, in the hope that some day his ships will go out. But before long Raleigh has to fight it out with a couple of courtiers (Robert Douglas and Jay Robinson), who have been intriguing on the Queen's outskirts. He also beds down with a proud beauty named Beth Throgmorton (Joan Collins), and when Elizabeth tries to draw a tight reign on this horseplay, Raleigh boldly kicks up his heels. For this the Queen could hand Sir Walter...
Twenty third-place winners busily chose the $100 worth of golf clubs, cameras, electric fans or half a dozen other items. Jay Y. Tipton of Salt Lake City wrote: "It isn't easy to choose . . . I've been toying with the idea of asking for $100 worth of Oldsmobiles, or some of I. W. Harper's liquid assets; there are so many products and services in TIME'S advertising pages." In Atlanta, Jack F. Glenn waited for his wife to come back to town...